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4 Key Security Trends For 2023

By Jonathan Lee, Senior Product Manager, Menlo Security

2022 has unfortunately failed to live up to hopes for calmer waters.

While it seems as though the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are now behind us, the past year
has been riddled with other difficulties. From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the growing cost of living
crisis, it’s been another incredibly tough year for all – and the situation hasn’t been eased by any softening
of the threat landscape.

Indeed, threat actors have continued to expand and evolve their attack methods, leveraging new
techniques and exploiting a series of emerging vulnerabilities.

Here, we look at four key emerging trends that we have observed this year and expect to grow throughout
2023.

1. HEAT attacks
Moves from threat actors to understand common technologies across the security stack and tailor attacks
to bypass these tools is a pressing problem for enterprises. Indeed, modern threats are becoming
increasingly advanced and evasive as adversaries come up with ways of getting around defences that
are all too often inadequate or outdated.

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